I stumbled on the LibreCAD project by chance.
It is a fork from Qcad, which only now provides its limited community versions free.
LibreCAD aims to be 100% Free and is rocking along in its development.

Its good for working .DXF files without the limitations of Qcad Community version (like no polylines).

I got it working in Lucid Puppy, but with some pain.

It won't compile no matter how I set things up with qt4 libraries and the like.

But a Lucid compiled Unbuntu .deb will get you home, plus an upgrade of the qtnetwork library.

First the homepage - they are developing it further so watch this space

i want to install librecad and installed as said in that, but when i open librecad via terminal got this message " librecad: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN14QObjectPrivate15checkWindowRoleEv.
now this .deb package and cannot opening pl help me.

No, that is saying it is installed, but it is not the same build as the program is linked against (Built with different options or something). Maybe you have two builds from different distros or something installed in different locations in your $PATH_________________DEATH TO SPREADSHEETS
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Classic Puppy quotes
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Beware the demented serfers!

If you have done several QT installs, chances are some parts are not agreeing with each other, version wise or how they were compiled.
QT is a monster - so its easy to get it to tie itself in a knot.

TIP: If you are going to use it often, make a savefile (if frugal install or similar) just setup for CAD with the QTs for librecad - no collisions.

I basically made a lupusave or a fatdog savefile setup for all of my CAD apps - all built from a fresh start so nothing collides, and took notes one by one as I installed things until everything was happy.
As soon as anything went crazy I retraced my steps and weeded out the offending app or library.

Big programs have a habit of having heaps of libraries and the more you have the greater the chance that they don't like each other.

Thanks muggins - just tried this on a live session of my Slacko 5.6 derivative and it appears to be working. Lots to learn so I haven't done anything advanced with it yet - just basic shapes, but it looks promising. Thanks.

- Any idea how to 'group' or 'connect' two 2D entities together? I have made one object placed offcentre inside another shape and want to rotate the two without losing their positions relative to each other. Sounds like I need to use block and layer functions but haven't figured it out yet.

- Any idea how to 'group' or 'connect' two 2D entities together? I have made one object placed offcentre inside another shape and want to rotate the two without losing their positions relative to each other. Sounds like I need to use block and layer functions but haven't figured it out yet.

I use QCad but a suggestion from there may work. You can select multiple parts and move them etc. When you do, they move together without grouping.

i hope you're question isn't directed at me....i've never used any cad program,

Actually it was, but no matter. I figured if you made the sfs you must be an expert

Moose On The Loose wrote:

I use QCad but a suggestion from there may work. You can select multiple parts and move them etc. When you do, they move together without grouping.

Thanks, I will try this again. I can select all of the items I want to combine but then I found I was unable to move them. Must be using the wrong technique. Did Qcad have the 'block' feature - is that how you were able to move a cluster of selected items as one block?

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